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Agostini is the driver selected by Porsche Italia for the International Scholarship Programme

Padova, 14 September 2015

Riccardo Agostini is the Under 26 selected by Porsche Italia to participate to the 2015 international Scholarship Programme. The driver from Padua will be one of the nine best drivers (seven of them coming from the relative national single-make championships of the Stuttgart’s Brand) taking part of the Porsche Motorsport selection which will take place at the end of the season, with the purpose to find an ambassador of the brand. Among them the best one will receive 200,000 Euro bonus to for the 2016 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, the championship dedicated to 911 Gt3 Cup “Type 991” cars, taking place during the same weekends of the Fomula 1 GP.

Agostini has been selected among the best drivers of the Italian series, not just because of the results obtained on track, but also because of his psychophysical profile. An important nomination and an authoritative confirmation of the value of the Italian driver, turned 21 in April, leader of the Carrera Cup Italia.

At Vallelunga the driver wearing the colours of the Antonelli Motorsport-Centro Porsche Padova team has been brilliant during the whole first part of the last weekend, gaining the superpole (six tenths below of the time set last year by the 2014 champion Matteo Cairoli), dominating Race 1 as well as scoring the fastest time.

Pitifully, a contact with his rival Come Ledogar, resulted in a drive-through penalty and the consequential withdraw in Race 2. But Agostini still leads the championship now 28 points ahead of the French driver. Still four races and two rounds to go: Misano (September 27) and Mugello (October 18).